School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1983. School.

School

WRENN ID
broken-vault-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1983
Type
School
Address
School, Wesley Slope, Frome
OS grid reference
ST 775 477
Coordinates
51.22863, -2.32328
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This school, dated 1863 and designed by architect W J Willcox, is a single-storey building in a Gothic style. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and features a tiled roof that has four vents and a crested ridge. The building has a distinctive arrangement of windows: one, one, three, one, two, and three lancet windows, most of which are linked. A central gable includes a subdivided light and an oculus. To the right of the center, there is an unusual belfry supported by a buttress and corbel arrangements below. The school is connected to No 3, the former schoolmaster's house, by a covered passage.

Local climate

School receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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